According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on April 17, the total retail sales of consumer goods in the first quarter was 785.8 billion yuan, down 19% year-on-year. Among them, the total retail sales of consumer goods in March was 264.5 billion yuan, a decrease of 15.8%, a decrease of 4.7 percentage points from January to February; the retail sales of commodities decreased by 12.0%, a decrease of 5.6 percentage points from January to February. (Editing Zhou Jing)
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